Intel Arctic Sound M vs NVIDIA GRID K120Q
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Intel Arctic Sound M and 512MB VRAM GRID K120Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arctic Sound M 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)
8000 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GRID K120Q 's Advantages
Lower TDP (130W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Intel Arctic Sound M
+4424%
14.75 TFLOPS
GRID K120Q
0.326 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Jul 2014
Xe Graphics
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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1200 MHz
Memory Clock
891 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
512MB
HBM2e
Memory Type
DDR3
4096bit
Memory Bus
128bit
1229GB/s
Bandwidth
28.51GB/s
Render Config
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8192
Shading Units
192
256
TMUs
16
128
ROPs
16
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-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
8 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
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-
Theoretical Performance
115.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.400 GPixel/s
230.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
13.60 GTexel/s
29.49 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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14.75 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
326.4 GFLOPS
3.686 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
13.60 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
130W
900 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
GK107
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Generation 12.7
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
28 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
1.27 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
118 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
3.0
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
